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Subject: Running a function in the background
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I was recently reviewing a webinar on large datasets, and the person
running the webinar ran a function called WriteMalloc (or something
like that).

Essentially what it did was it was a plot window that updated every
second with the amount of memory used by the matlab session.

I am looking at writing something similar, but I have never seen a
figure get updated and run parallel with inputting in the command
window. Does anyone know how this might be done?

This isn't vital, but it was one of those things that I have never
seen before, and think it could be really handy.